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jmbar2

(8,257 posts) Fri Jun 12, 2026, 09:48 AM Friday

*Rump can't stand for Elon to get all the attention. FFS...

ELON is opening Wall Street with the SpaceX IPO - big bell-ringing, huge hoopla. Then *Rump comes in with announcement that Iran is not happening. Stocks crash.

What a fuckin' douchebag.

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*Rump can't stand for Elon to get all the attention. FFS... (Original Post) jmbar2 Friday OP

Stock crash couldn't happen to a better person than Eloon LearnedHand Friday #1

It's right back up. Battling billionaires... jmbar2 Friday #2

who knows. personally, i think he's giving musk cover. unblock Friday #3

T can't stand for anyone else to be in the spotlight. mwmisses4289 Friday #4

LearnedHand

(5,656 posts)

1. Stock crash couldn't happen to a better person than Eloon

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Jun 12, 2026, 09:52 AM

Friday

May he lose all his wealth and owe that twice over in restitution.

jmbar2

(8,257 posts)

2. It's right back up. Battling billionaires...

Reply to LearnedHand (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 12, 2026, 09:55 AM

Friday

unblock

(56,304 posts)

3. who knows. personally, i think he's giving musk cover.

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Jun 12, 2026, 09:58 AM

Friday

tanking the market to cover for the fact that the ipo was wildly over-hyped.

i dunno, maybe the hype will linger long enough for the stock to rise anyway, but we shall see what the stock price does once it goes live....

mwmisses4289

(5,018 posts)

4. T can't stand for anyone else to be in the spotlight.

Reply to jmbar2 (Original post)

Fri Jun 12, 2026, 02:39 PM

Friday

He probably still resents all the attention e got as "head" of doge. Anything he can do to steal attention from anyone else he will do.

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